Dante sat on the couch of his apartment, nursing from a bottle of wine, it was late in the evening and he had to get up early tomorrow to go to work. He took another sip from his wine, he always had a hard time going to sleep sometimes staying up for weeks at a time, alcohol helped sometimes, but not always.
He took another swig from the bottle, when suddenly, BANG a loud clatter of thunder outside nearly made him choke on his wine. Coughing he looked out his window and saw that the rain was coming down hard with bolts of lightning followed by thunder crashing down regularly. Suddenly Dante heard a knocking at his front door, getting up he walked over to the door confused who would be visiting him at this hour.
"I hope it's Loona," he thought to himself excitedly, but when he opened the door he saw it was not Loona but.
"Octavia?" he said in surprise, seeing the daughter of his employer's benefactor standing at his front door.
She was drenched, her clothes were soaking wet, her hair was dripping and plastered to her head and face. She shivered; the apartment didn't have any central heating so it was just as cold inside as it was outside.
"C-can I come in please?" she asked through her shivers.
"Sure, come on in," Dante said, moving aside to let her in.
Heading to a closet Dante pulled out a towel and handed in to Octavia who began drying herself off.
"So do you mind telling me what you're doing at my place at 10:30 looking like you just walked through a lake?" Dante asked, crossing his arms.
"My parents are fighting again," Octavia said, the sadness clear in her voice.
"So, from what you've said they fight all the time. Why not just put on some music and ignore them like usual?" he asked not sure why tonight would be worse than any other.
"It's worse tonight, the yelling, the shouting, the smashing it's just-" she choked, unable to get the words out, she began sobbing into the towel Dante gave her.
Dante gave her a look of sympathy, pulling her in for a hug. Burying her face in his shoulder Octavia continued to cry as Dante gently rubbed her back. After a few minutes she pulled away and wiped her eyes.
"I'm sorry but can I stay here tonight please I just can't go back home," she said, distraught, her voice filled with stress.
Dante grimaced, he did not want this girl staying with him, he still remembered their night out at the movies. He shuddered at the memory. Besides that, Dante doubted that Stolas would be very keen on the idea.
"Look, can't you stay at a hotel or something? I mean it would probably be nicer than… this," he asked motioning to his crappy apartment.
"Most of the hotels in this city are shit, the only nice ones are in Pentagram and I'm not going there alone," she said, shaking her head in dismissal.
"Why not?"
"Because Valentino lives in Pentagram City!"
Realization dawned on Dante, he knew all about Valentino and the other Overlords of Pentagram City. Valentino was a vicious vice king who ran most if not all of the sex businesses around the city, from hookers to sex shops. Dante had heard all about the horrible things Valentino had done to his workers who got on his bad side. Now he gets why she doesn't want to go to Pentagram alone.
"Please, please let me stay here?" she begged giving him these big puppy-dog eyes.
"Fucking dammit," he muttered to himself.
"Fine you can stay the night but you're going home in the morning," he stated pointing a finger at her. She smiled and ran up giving him a big hug.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" she yelled, nuzzling him.
Pushing her off he led her down the hall, she blushed when she realized he was taking her to his room. Looking around she saw his room was small and cramped with nothing but a small queen-sized bed and a single dresser. Octavia shivered realizing she was still wearing her soaking wet clothes.
Dante rummaged through his closet and pulled out a thick fuzzy blanket which he usually saved for colder nights. Putting the blanket on the bed, he suddenly heard rustling, turned around and to his surprise he saw Octavia standing in front of him in nothing but her underwear.
"Via what are you doing?" he asked, sounding tired and annoyed looking at the ceiling.
"What my clothes are wet. You wouldn't want me sleeping in wet clothes now, would you?" she asked, sounding playfully innocent, not bothering to cover herself, Dante pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration.
"It's late I say we should get some sleep," Octavia said walking past him and sitting on the bed, patting a spot with her hand indicating she wants Dante to join her.
Sighing Dante took off his shirt, Octavia's eyes went wide, so did her smile. Dante turned around and tossed the shirt on top of Via's head, who let out a squeak of surprise.
"You can sleep in that tonight and don't worry I'll take the couch so you'll have plenty of room," he said as he walked out the door and headed for the living room.
Dante awoke when the first rays of reddish light poured through his broken damaged blinds and hit him in the face. Dante opened his eyes, slowly blinking sleep out of his eyes. As his eyes cleared, he realized that he was in his living room.
"Huh, how did I… oh yeah," the events of last night came flooding in.
God dammit I gotta stop letting people take my room when they crash at my place, whatever I gotta pee, Dante thought to himself, but as he was about to get up, he felt a weight on top of him.
"What the?" he muttered to himself, reaching out with his hands he felt something laying on top of him. Whatever it was his touch stirred it awake, causing it to sit up revealing to Dante what it was.
"Morning Dante," Octavia said with a yawn planting herself on Dante's lap, which just made his full bladder worse.
"Octavia what the fuck are you doing sleeping on me and not in my room?" he asked, pretty uncomfortable with the whole situation.
"Well last night I got up to use the bathroom and I heard a noise coming from the living room so I went to check it out and I saw you were having a really bad nightmare," she explained, concern clear in her voice.
"Really?" he asked, blushing, embarrassed that someone saw him having one of his usual nightmares.
"Yeah, you were thrashing around and moaning and babbling in a weird language I couldn't really understand, I was worried so I started singing a lullaby my father used to sing to me when I had nightmares, and well you calmed down I was worried you'd start having nightmares again so I stayed," she finished her story moving a lock of hair out of her face and smiling down at Dante.
"Look thanks for that but you didn't have to do that, I have nightmares all the time, I would have been ok," he explained trying to not let Octavia see how embarrassed he was.
"Oh, I'm sure but I had to do something to show my gratitude for letting me crash at your place," she said, batting her eyes at him.
"Here let me show you just how grateful I am," she said in a sultry tone as she bent down and tried to kiss Dante, who turned away so she just got his cheek instead, not that that diswaded her as she kept at it.
"Via listen can you get off me I really gotta-" his statement was interrupted when Blitzo kicked his front door in.
"Dante get your ass up now we got people to fucking-" Blitzo stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the sight Infront of him, Via in nothing but a t-shirt sitting on top of a shirtless Dante.
"Dammit Dante didn't you read the company rules, if you can't come in for a sexual reason you call out, and you send plenty of pictures," Blitzo said pulling out his phone and taking a pic of Dante and Via together. Dante sat up knocking Via off his lap causing her to fall onto the floor.
"Ow!" she yelled, rubbing her head.
"Oops sorry Via," Dante said apologetically. Giving her a hand, he helped her up.
"How about you get dressed and then you can head home I'm sure your folks are worried," Dante said trying to pull his hand away from Via but her grip was like iron.
"About that I kinda took a cab here and I really don't want to take another one," she explained, squeezing Dante's hand tighter.
"Why not?" Blitzo asked.
"Because the driver was a total creep, I literally had to threaten to turn him to stone to get him to stop bugging me, I really don't want to go through that again," she explained, cringing at the memory.
Sighing, Blitzo rubbed his temples "alright how about this, why don't you come with us to the office and wait for Stolas to come get you?" he asked, ignoring the silent pleas from Dante to rescind his offer.
"Sure, works for me especially since i get to spend time with Dante here," she said pulling him into a hug, and giving him kisses, Dante gave Blitzo a look that said one day soon Blitzo was going to be in a lot of pain and Dante was gonna be the one to inflict it.
Finally prying Via off Dante sent her to his room to get her clothes, she tried to convince Dante to come with her but he said he had something to talk about with Blitzo.
"Why the fuck would you invite her to work?" he asked in a hushed tone so Via couldn't hear.
"Hey she's Stolas' daughter and if something bad happened to her he'd kill me," Blitzo explained Dante just pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration.
"So how was she?" Blitzo asked, giving Dante a look making Dante groan.
"We didn't fuck alright!" he stated in a frustrated tone.
"Sure, you didn't," Blitzo replied, giving Dante a wink.
Octavia walked out of Dante's room wearing her dress, jacket and beanie all of which were dirty and wrinkled but it was all she had right now.
Leaving the apartment, the three walked out to the IMP van whose passengers looked on in surprise to see Octavia with the group.
"Uh sir what is she doing here?" Moxxie asked Blitzo as he came around to his side.
"Oh, she and Dante fucked last night so she's gonna come with us to the office so Stolas can pick her up," Blitzo stated, Moxxie turned away from Blitzo and gave Millie a smug smile, who returned it with an annoyed scowl.
"There's not a lot of room where she gonna sit?" Millie asked as Dante climbed into the van.
That question was soon answered when Via sat herself down on Dante's lap. Blitzo looked at them in the rearview mirror and glared.
"Hey no fucking alright," he said sternly.
"We won't," Dante said.
"No promises," Octavia replied.
The car ride to IMP was awkward to say the least with the other passengers sitting quietly trying to ignore the thirsty owl girl sitting on their coworker's lap. Moxxie looked out the window trying to ignore the two, Millie glared at the two looking very unhappy, Loona looked at the two in the rear-view mirror and quietly growled. Octavia leaned in closer, wrapping her arms around Dante and burying her head into his shoulder.
"Thanks for last night, we should do it again sometime," she said, kissing him on the cheek, Dante grimaced looking away, Loona bristled.
After what felt like forever they finally arrived at the office, Dante led Via to the office she was holding his hand the whole time not that he could get her off that is. When they entered the office Blitzo went to his office to call Stolas, while the rest just sat around waiting for a client to call and bring them a target. Octavia sat on the couch putting in headphones Dante sat on the other end relieved to not have her clinging to her anymore. Loona sat at her desk glaring at Octavia, not happy in the slightest to see her.
It has nothing to do with Dante, of course not he can sleep with whoever. It's not my problem, it's just that the girl is really annoying, yeah that was it, she thought to herself.
Deciding some coffee would help her calm down Loona got up and headed for the coffee machine. Pouring herself a cup she reached for a sugar packet when she accidentally knocked the box holding them over causing them to spill out onto the floor.
"Motherfucker," she cursed under her breath as she bent over to pick them up, giving everyone in the office a generous view of her ass.
Octavia cringed at the site, looking away but what she saw afterwards horrified her even more. Dante watched Loona's ass with intense focus, his black and red eyes going over her curves and admiring them more each minute. Suddenly Dante got up and walked over to Loona.
"Hey Loonie let me help you with that," he said, crouching down to help Loona finish picking up the sugar packets. Once done they stood up and Loona placed the box of sugar packets back on the table, Loona then gave Dante a warm smile.
"Thanks for the help, maybe later you can give me some cream," she said in a low sultry tone brushing her hand under Dante's chin. Dante watched her walk back to her desk swaying her hips Dante smiled. Octavia on the other hand just glared, she was about to say something until Blitzo came out of his office.
"Welp, I called Stolas and he should be here any minute," he said to Octavia who gave him a polite nod.
About an hour later they got a client so the staff of IMP went into the board room to talk about the hit. Loona was about to head in when she was stopped by Blitzo.
"Loonie wait out here for Stolas alright," he told Loona, holding a hand in front of her.
"What! Why!?" she asked, looking over at Octavia and grimaced.
"Because we have to talk about the client and I don't want her wandering off, Stolas sounded really upset over the phone and I don't need him having a panic attack in the office," he explained putting his hands on his hips.
Loona was about to counter when she saw Dante look at her with pleading eyes and silently mouthed the word, please, rolling her eyes Loona agreed.
"But you owe me bigtime for this!" she said to Dante, but Blitzo thought she was talking to him.
"Of course, Loonie, whatever you want," he said in a sweet fatherly tone before slamming the door.
Ten minutes have passed by but it might as well have been ten years, Loona sat at her desk head resting in her hands, Octavia on the other hand keyed back on the couch going through her phone. As they sat in awkward silence, Octavia looked over at Loona, the sight from earlier playing in her head.
He can't be into her, can he, no way, Dante would never go after a grumpy jerk like her, she thought to herself certain that Dante would never go after a girl like her, she smiled. But as she continued to look over Loona she noticed she had something that she was certainly lacking, curves. Octavia looked down at her own body, blushing as she pulled her jacket closed in embarrassment.
Looking over at her, Loona noticed her staring.
"What?" she asked in an annoyed tone.
"Oh, uh I was just wondering are you and Dante… close?" Octavia asked, trying not to let her nervousness show. Loona smirked.
"Oh, we're close, in fact we're very close, me and him have-" Loona was interrupted when suddenly the door to IMP was thrown open slamming into the wall and shattering the glass. The two girls let out yelps of surprise turning towards the front door. They saw none other than Stolas looking disheveled and wearing sunglasses over his lower pair of eyes.
"OCTAVIA!" he shouted as he scooped his daughter up into his arms and pulled her into a bone crushing hug.
"Gahh, dad I'm ok really put me down," she gasped trying to get out of her father's vice like grip.
"What the fuck is going on!" Blitzo shouted as he and the rest of IMP came out of the conference room, weapons in hand but soon lowered them when they saw it was just Stolas.
"BLITZY!" he shouted letting go of Octavia, and rushing over to give Blitzo a back breaking hug and pelt him with kisses.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you, Blitzy for watching out for and protecting my sweet, sweet, little owlet, oh I knew I could count on you," he praised as he continued to hold Blitzo in a tight embrace.
"Ahh it… wasn't… me," Blitzo tried to say as he was being crushed by the horny owl's embrace. Surprised, Stolas released Blitzo and looked at him quizzically.
"Well, if you didn't look after my daughter who did?" he asked.
"It was Dante here," Octavia said, wrapping her arms around his.
Stolas looked at Dante not saying a single word, even though he was wearing sunglasses he could tell that Stolas was sending him daggers, Dante gulped. Slowly walking over to Dante Stolas bent down so he was face to face with Dante.
"May I ask what you were doing with my daughter?" The voice was cold as ice sent shivers up his spine.
"She just needed a place to stay for the night, that's all," Dante said nervously, Stolas narrowed his eyes through the sunglasses.
"Dad, stop harassing my boyfriend!" Octavia shouted to her father causing both him and Dante to freeze up.
"Boyfriend?!" they both said in unison.
"Yes," she said with a nod, walking over and wrapping her arms around Dante.
"He is my boyfriend and you are going to treat him with respect, alright!" she said sternly, giving Stolas a glare so sharp he had to take a step back. Stolas quickly regained his composure, cleared his voice and stretched out his hand for Dante to take.
"I would like to thank you for looking after my daughter and keeping her safe, thank you," he said in a proper professional tone.
Dante looked him over before taking his hand and shaking it.
"It was no problem, happy to help," Dante replied in an equally polite and respectful tone.
"Well thank you for your help but we must be going, Octavia," he said, heading towards the door and gesturing for Octavia to follow.
"Thanks again for last night," she said, planting a kiss on Dante before following her father out the door.
Once they were out of the office Dante quickly wiped his hand on his jacket, fucking noble, their all scum. He thought to himself angered at the arrogance and pride he could feel emanating from the prince, he was taken out of his thoughts when he felt a hand on his back.
"Wow I'm impressed son it's not every day an imp catches the eye of a noble," Moxxie said in a proud voice.
"Well at least one that isn't purely sexual," he said looking towards Blitzo who just stuck his tongue out at him. Dante just sighed and rubbed his temples.
"Can we just get back to work please?" he asked, desperate to move away from the topic of him and Octavia.
"Sure works for me, I don't really feel like talking about thirsty owls anyway," Blitzo said heading back into the conference room followed by Millie and Moxxie, but Millie instead headed for Loona and gave her a big hug.
Loona was stunned by this sudden display of affection, from her coworker.
"What the fuck are you doing?" she asked very uncomfortable with this sudden contact.
"I'm so sorry Loona I can't imagine what you must be feelin," she said in a very sad sympathetic tone. Now Loona was even more confused.
"Huh?" Loona said, confused, not sure what Millie was talking about. Millie saw the confused look on her face and continued.
"I mean having your boyfriend mess around on you like that it must hurt so much I know if my Moxxie messed around on me like that," she said and she pulled her into a tighter hug, which just made her skin crawl. Pushing her off she looked Millie in the eye as she said.
"Stop it! Alright I'm not sad, I'm not upset, I'm fine!" Millie looked at her confused.
"But hun aren't you and him?" she gestured with her hands to show she thought they were dating.
"No were not dating were just friends with benefits, Dante can fuck with whoever he wants just as long as he's down to fuck with me I don't care," she explained crossing her arms looking annoyed.
Millie raised her eyebrow clearly not believing her.
"Look can you just drop this I'm fine alright I don't care who Dante fucks besides me alright?" she asked, frustrated by this whole situation.
"Alright if you say you're fine, but if you need someone to talk to, I'll be here," she said heading towards the conference room.
Loona just sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.
God I need a drink. She thought to herself.
Epilogue
Stolas sat in the limousine with his daughter sitting across from him listening to music. Stolas reached behind his sunglasses and touched his black eye, he winced in pain touching the swollen flesh. Stella had gotten really mad at him last night for not just his continued affair but also having lost the book and getting in trouble with Lucifer. The black eyes were from when she threw a potted plant at him, and it was one of his favorites as well. But Stolas wasn't thinking about that right now he was more focused on something far more important, his daughter had a boyfriend, and he didn't like it.
He didn't know anything about this boy other than he worked for Blitzo and was a skilled shot. He may have done a good job guarding her that one time but he still didn't trust him especially since he didn't know anything about him.
He must be one smooth talker if he was able to win Octavia's heart, he thought to himself upon seeing just how smitten she was with him.
While he seemed like a good lad Stolas couldn't shake this strange feeling he got from him, he could sense an intense burning hatred behind those eyes. It was so intense that he thought for a minute he would burst into flames.
But that wasn't the reason why he was so suspicious of him. He was familiar, he wasn't sure from where but he recognized Dante from somewhere but he just couldn't put his finger on it. But he didn't have time to think about that now. What he really had to do was make sure this Dante fellow was worthy of being with his precious daughter.
Another chapter down alright guys tell me what you think and if you have any advice I'll gladly take it. Thank you all for reading my story.